The company they keep

The folks on Right Wing Avenue will be having a little gathering this Saturday in Sanford[1]. The event is billed as “A Citizen’s Constitutional Workshop.” It’s co-sponsored by the Locke Foundation, a Locke initiative known as the North Carolina History Project, the Lee County branch of Americans for Prosperity and a group called Moore Tea Citizens.

By all appearance, this is but the latest in a series of such events of this ilk — ultra-conservative Pope employees with degrees waxing poetic and nostalgic about the genius of propertied old white guys in wigs and knee breeches.

Still, it’s always fun to check out some of the co-sponsors of these shindigs to see just how long it takes to get to the seamy underbelly of the modern American right.

Of course, these people are entitled to their beliefs — however wacky they may be. It would be interesting, however, to hear what the Pope groups and their allies in politics have to say about them and their causes (and to find out which ones they endorse and which ones they’re willing to disavow).